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21/09/2024

How is the weather at yours? I'm soaking up the likely last bits of summery sunshine we are getting now in England and I found a recipe to match from my archives! The soup was quick to make and uses a lot of herbs. I think this is a keeper.

The was in the booklet that came with my lovely Le Creuset teal cast iron pot. You will find it on the Le Creuset UK website, it's called "Pea and Zucchini Soup with Yoghurt & Minted Almond Salsa". In the booklet it was pea and courgette 😁

I don't know how you feel about it but 200g of courgette/zucchini felt like very little when you make six portions of soup and my courgettes were 200g each even if I thought they were medium so I tripled the amount of courgette. I suspect you might quite like to do so as well. I am very into the minted almond salsa, a lovely addition. I will need to make bread to enjoy the leftovers...

25/08/2024

Are you someone that's able to keep up with good routines all the time or do you dip in and out?

You might have noticed that I have been less visible on social media - parental duties and improving the quality of our life as a family has taken priority over posting and I have to admit food also often comes as an afterthought when I'm too tired to think about it and meals have not always been very inspired 😅

Today I feel quite proud that I put together this salad with greens, cucumber, leftover chicken and a lovely roasted fig. I am hopeful that I'm now more focused on planning ahead a bit and getting back on track with it all 💗 I'm even baking gluten-free sourdough bread later today 💪

How are things at yours?

16/07/2024

I am sure these have been posted all over the socials while I have been focusing on life outside devices but I did a little happy dance realising these Ferrero Rocher ice creams haven't got gluten in the ingredients and they haven't got a may contain statement.

The ice cream is small and the pack of four was £5.20 (£3.75 Clubcard price) at Tesco so definitely an indulgence but as a rare treat perfectly acceptable I felt. The chocolate is rich and sweet so I didn't mind the small size.

Ps. I'm not currently very active on posting in my socials but my bread course is available and you can always DM me if you want to get in touch.

13/02/2024

Happy Pancake Day! Have you already made yours? I'd love to know what you have them with.

For my gluten, corn and rice free pancakes I went for the quick and reliable Teff Pancake and Waffle mix from which is now a staple in my house and I'm having them with strawberry jam, a very simple and tasty thing ❤️

29/01/2024

Us Finnish people have our own cake for 5th February, which is a week from now!

The Runeberg Torte is a lovely moist cake with almonds and cardamom and raspberry jam and you can soak it in your favourite tipple if you like.

I have only gotten to making these after my coeliac diagnosis as I feel that they are nicer when made gluten-free.

I am also quite proud of my hack if using a medicine syringe to insert jam ☺️

If you want to make these I have moved the recipe up in my Link tree, which you will find in my bio.☝️

01/01/2024

This gluten-free date bundt cake is the epitome of Christmas bakes for me. It has a lovely succulent structure and a gorgeous flavours of caramel from the dates with cardamom and vanilla coming through.

This year I made it with wholegrain teff flour from to get a flavoursome cake with tummy friendly fibre as my perimenopausal self doesn't really do so well with starchy flours combined with sugar.

Save this recipe 👇

Ingredients
225g dried pitted dates (from a block)
300g (ml) water
200g softened butter (add a pinch of salt (0.5g) if using unsalted butter)
150g (150ml) granulated sugar
5g vanilla essence (1tsp)
3 large eggs
250g (350ml) white teff flour (GF, no 'may contain')
7g (2tsp) baking powder
2g (1tsp) ground cardamom (seeds from 10-15 green pods ground
Some extra butter and teddy flour for flouring the cake ring

*If you can't get teff flour (brown teff will also work as the cake is brown in colour anyway) you can make this also with commercial GF flour mix. Use 190g (same 350ml volume) and one less egg. If the flour is self-raising, reduce the amount of baking powder by half, too.

Method in comments! ⤵️

22/12/2023

Making homemade gingerbread and building a gingerbread house are my childhood Christmas traditions.

That's what we did also this year. You can find my Finnish gluten-free gingerbread recipe in my blog, which you can find via the link tree in my bio should you like to give them a go.

I have also a post about making a gingerbread lantern if you rather not risk the roof collapsing.

Ps. Full closure, our gingerbread house was a bit of a fixer upper - the roof slab broke in half and the base plate burnt from the edge when I was trying to give it a solid bake. So I made extra royal icing to coat it all and it actually holds 😅 If yours isn't Insta perfect, it's fine, the most important part is to have fun making it.

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